The Sun. — London, England, 1838-05-17 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER STAMPS. (From the Parliamentary Returns published this day.) A Return of the Number of NEWSPAPER STAMPS at One Penny and One halfpenny issued to the several News papers in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist De cember 1837 to the 31st of March 1838 inclusive; specifying each Newspaper by Name, and the Number of Stamps issued each Month during that period to each Newspaper. EXTRACT. LONDON EVENING NEWSPAPERS. Couricr.....Dec. 1837 31,000 Jan. 1838 39,000 Feb. 1838 33,000 Mar. 1838 33,000 , 136,000 306,000 383,000 420,000 Globe Dec. 1887 72,000 Jan. 1838 no,ooo Feb. 1838 72,000 Mar. 1838 72,000 Stand ard...Dec. 1837 78,000 Jan. 1838 105,000 Feb. 1838 lOO,OOO Mar. 1838 lOO,OOO The Sun... Dee. 1837 102,000 Jan. 1838 lll,OOO Feb. 1838 96,000 DI ar. 18:38 lll,OOO . HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. M0rning........ 4 minutes after r) I Evening ..... 37 minutes after 9 BILLS and ADVERTISEMENTS f or t h e FOURTH NUMBER of the MONTHLY CHRONICLE are requested to be sent to the Publishers before Thursday the 24th inst. N.B. No. 4. will complete the First Volume, price 10s. cloth lettered. London: Longman and Co. The publication of TUE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 30 minutes past Three o' Clock. WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1838. We scarcely go along with our liberal Contemporaries in condemning the Tories for supporting Sir THOMAS Ac- LAND'S motion, because the Duke of WELLINGTON made a conditional promise at the close of last Session to aid the Ministers in any reasonable settlement of the Irish Tithe question. Of course it was then well understood on both sides, if not actually expressed, that the two parties should remain in the same relative positions—Lord MELBOURNE, in office, supported by a tolerably large majority, and the Duke of WELLIGGTON, in opposition, at the head of a scattered, divided, wrangling, and somewhat abashed crew of followers. When the Duke of WELLINGTON made the declaration, on Juno 29, 1837, the dissolution of Par liament was at hand. He of course expected, and all men we believe expected, that a dissolution, under the circum stances which then existed—a young and popular QUEEN throwing all the influence of the Court on the side of Lord MELBOURNE and the Reformed Corporations, to aid him, for the first time—would add very much to the strength of the Liberal party in the House of Commons. The result, demonstrating the immense influence which Church ques tions yet exercise over the inhabitants of England, was ad verse to the hopes of the Liberals, and the opinions of the majority of the community. In the present House of Commons, elected under great advantages for the Minis ters, the Tories almost equal them in numbers. The cir cumstances, then, in 1838, though Lord MELBOURNE is still in office, and the Duke of WELLINGTON in opposi tion, are different in this important particular, that the Tories aro much stronger in Parliament than they were in 1837, and much stronger than it was expected they would be. It has also been made plain that the most violent of that party have had the most influence. Those who appealed to the lingering remains of bigotry in the land, have been the most successful. The increase of their number is due to the skill and power with which the Clergy and their allies have blown by their reli gious bellows the zeal of the people into a flame. The moderate Tories are completely overdone in the Par. liament by their ultra allies, and neither the Duke of WELLINGTON, Sir ROBERT PEEL, nor Lord STANLEY could hope to keep their forces together for a single day, except by embracing the ultra doctrines, which the two former repudiated in 1829, and the latter first professed in 1835. It becomes necessary then in the leaders of the Tories to forego all moderation, and especially to forego it o❑ that great point—the Church, its attributes and possessions —to support which, in fact, their friends have been sent to Parlia ment. Theysec this necessity, and with that readiness of tact, which has always been a property of the Tory leaders, and which the Ministers did not display on the Ballot question, they have at once acceded to the views of the majority of their supporters. If the Duke WELLINGTON and Sir ROBERT PEEL really meant at the close of the last Session to follow a liberal line of policy this Session, the cir cumstances we have mentioned make that impossible, if they would not quarrel with their own friends and sup porters. They have become, in fact, and they must remain, as politicians, the tools of that ultra and bigotted party of which the Standard and the Times are the organs, and to which they lend vitality and coherence. Under these circumstances the Ministers committed a fault, in relying on the words of the Tory leaders, instead of looking at their position. They have felt themselves con strained by the influence of the Tories in the country to be less liberal than they wished, and they ought to have perceived that the same cause, if any difference were to re main between the parties, would force their opponents to becom e ultras. It is under the influence of circumstances, then, that the Duke of WELLINGTO N has become faithless, according to the interpretation put on his language by the Ministers, and that Sir ROBERT PEEL and his friends have unwittingly led Lord JOHN RUSSELL into a snare. Re membering the arts which were used to inflame the people at the period of the election, and the sort of taco who were elected—and seeing the close and compact manner in which they now unite under kl% CHANDO9 or a KNATCHBULL—we arc convinced that it ROBER T PEEL and the Duke of WELLINGTON cannot elp themselves, and must be the foes to moderation and justice to Ireland, or give up political power. If this les son should abate somewhat of their political arrogance, it will he not without its sweet uses. Their present conduct is the counterpart—though in small—of that conduct of the Catholics in large, which they so continually censure. When they professed moderation in 1837, they were not aware of the immense fund of bigotry in the land on which they might draw, and could only draw for support in 1838. They havo got a new light since then, and their steps are guided accord ingly. When the Ca!holies professed obedience, respeeL, and veneration for the Church Establishment trior to 1829, •they were deplorably ignorant of their own power, and of the, weakness of the Government. There had been tin revolutio❑ of July—begetting a thorough conviction in all Europe that the thrones, which are not founded on the affections of the people, and on concessions to their just tiernands, rest on sand ; and then though the sovereignty of the people was toasted, the fact that they are all in all, and their rulers powerless —except as the or gans of the people —was not a living principle of social life. Circumstances since 1829 have taught the Catholics the secret of their power, and of the weakness of their oppressors, and they carry their views farther in 1838—just like Sir ROBERT PEEL and his friends —than they did in 1829 or 1837. The force of circumstances justifies a change of conduct both in the Tory leaders and the Catholics—and it is only contemptible in politicians to recognise this important principle, and refuse to follow it out to all its just and logical conclusions. A correspondence, which we publish in our columns of this day, between the Honourable Captain BERKELEY and to e Liberal Independent Association of Gloucester, relative t o the representatio n of that city in Parliament, powerfully illustrates the mistaken policy of the Government upon the faro .Question. Tito majority of the constituency of Gloucester are decidedly liberal—they are zealous sup porters of the general policy of the MELBOURNE Mlnistrya-a and they entertain a strong personal regard for the Ho nourable and Gallant Candidate who appears before them:, not only as an occasional supporter 'or the Government, but a Member of it —a Lord of the Admiralty—and yet he himself appears to despair of his return, because his con nection with the Cabinet will not suffer Lim to pledge self to vote in favour of the immediate ematieleatitiiiiit the unfortunate negroes. It may b urged that Captain BEr.icELEY is inEtkanced by personal considerations—that he is - so strongly opposed to the principle or hustings' pledges as to have determined never to give any under any circumstances. Such objections, unless coming from him self, are ridiculous. Had theyexisted he would have been but too happy to exonerate the Ministry by stating them in one or other of his addresses to the Independent Association and citizens of Gloucester. We are fir from wishing to cast the remotest reflection upon tha conduct of the Hon. Captain BERKELEY for the course which he has adopted. He must have ascertained be'7'ore-hand that the Govern ment would not do without his vote on the slave question ; and he honourably preferred retiring to a chance of dividing the Liberal interest, or the giving a pledge which he had no intention of fulfilling. Had he been as careless of his political reputation, and as lax in his principles, as some professed Parliamentary Liberals whom we could enume rate, lie would have swallowed the pledge, and taken his chance of voting as the Government might deem requisite. He is, therefore, fully entitled to the merit of having acted a straightforward, honourable part—of having preferred the triumph of his principles to all considerations personal to himself. Captain BERKELEY'S proffered retirement from a contest for the representation of the city of Gloucester is, under all circumstances, highly creditable to himself in dividually ; but who, on that account, will venture to ac quit the Cabinet . of having forced upon him such an alterna tive ? Ministers have here a foretaste of the difficulties with which they have blindly and obstinately beset their own supporters. They will meet with no opposition in Gloucester which they will not meet with in every Liberal constituency in the country on the ques tion of slavery. Indeed, so all-engrossing is the inte rest at present felt upon this subject, that we question whe ther, in the event of an immediate dissolution of Parlia ment, any other pledge, besides that of voting for the im mediate, unconditional, and unqualified abolition of slavery in every shape and form, would be rigidly exacted from candidates, even by a majority of the most liberal consti tuenciea in the country. This is a pledge which some of the most ultra Tories in the United Kingdom have quali fied themselves to take—so that the leaders of that faction would have only to distribute their forces with a slight de gree of caution at an ensuing election, to make sure cf a large Parliamentary majority. Suppose Sir ROBERT IN GLlS—ultra Tory as he is—were to contest the represen tation of the most Liberal constituency in England with the most Liberal supporter of Ministers who voted with them against Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND'S motion for the abolition of negro apprenticeship, can there be a doubt but that the slavery abolitionist would be bound in conscience to vote for the Tory candidate ? And yet Ministers appear blind— obstinately, wilfully, and therefore incurably blind, to the proximity of the fatal rock upon which they are driving the bark of Reform. The Tories have wisely abstained from making the slavery question either a Ministerial or a party question. They have not made a vote for the procrastination of negro oppression the badge of offi cial Conservatism. Not so the MELBOURNE Cabinet, as appears from the dismissal of Lord CHARLES Frrznov, and the election addresses of the Hon. Captain BERKELEY. Ministers have now had ample time to re-consider their conduct upon the Slave question ; and if they are still re solved to persevere in their defence of the iniquity of the Planters, we warn them to avoid every thing that can lead to an early dissolution of Parliament. Having wiifully, and, as we think, wantonly provoked the just hostility of the Dissenters and the Society of Friends on the Slave question—having succumbed to the Tories upon every measure for the radical improvement of the Reform Bill— and having sacrificed the interests of the Commercialists to the ignorant fears of the agriculturists upon Colonel 1 1 SEALE'S Bonded Corn Bill, wo do not think that they would at all mend their present Parliamentary position by an appeal to the electors of the United Kingdom. This is with us a subject of sincere regret. With all their faults 'of ommis.sion and commission, the MELBOURNE Ministry have rendered essential service to the liberal cause ; nor have they been at any time wanting in intentions to promote the popular welfare. They have not only carried many measures of useful Reform, but they have prevented many acts of Tory peculation and oppression. We are therefore sorry to see them thus madly perilling their official existence in support of a tyranny, hateful to GOD and abhorrent to the right feelings of every honest man. It will be seen from the divisions on the Scots Small Debt Bill that the Liberals were left ast night in a mino rity—and no great wonder. The Tories, true to their po licy and tactics, had evidently made a regular whip to sup port their steady friend the ex-Loan ADVOCATE, while the Whigs, no less true to their carelessnesss about any ques tion which does not endanger their existence as an Adminis tration, allowed their LORD ADVOCATE, their ATTORNEY GENERAL, and their HOME-SECRETARY, to be defeated, rather than give their whippers-in the trouble of supporting those engaged in defending Scotland from a most insidious infliction. The Scots Small Debt 1311 is brought forward by the leading Tories of Scotland, which of itself is quite sufficient to stamp its character with that intelligent people. We understand the intention is to bring the unlearned and igno rant Justices of Peace in competition with the professionally taught stipendiary Judges which Scotland has in every county, and ;vho hold Courts every month on stated days in al; the large towns; hut there these Courts are fairly presided over. Jobbing is unknown in them—whereas in Justice-of- Peace-Courts men sit on the Bench to try the causes of all around their residence ; and in these times of excitement it will easily be seen that Tory Justices, who greatly prepon derate in Scotland, as they unhappily do everywhere else, x\ ill have constant, snug opportunities to favour those they love, and damage those they hate, as one and all are known to bate Reformers in the humbler walks of life. Tl.e names in the different divisions will show the certainty of a Tory whip,as without this application such a list of Tory Members and whippers would not have been found on any Scottish question. Perhaps this may solve the matter—it was merely a Scotch question, and therefore unworthy of the protecting care of the Government, who knowing well the devotion of the Li herd Members from Scotland to everything which is for the public good, and arc sure of their attendance andsteady support even in defiance of the delays they are daily subjected to io conducting Scotch business, and the unseemly treatment they otherwise witness during its progress. We can, and do tell the Whig, Ministry that their conduct in this re spect is narrowly watched in Scotland, and will not be for gotten when the day of trial and retribution shall arrive. Meantime we refer our numerous readers in Scotland to the names on the divisions, so that they may read those of their friends and foes, present and absent. The question of the union between Church and State, as stirred by Dr. CHAratEns, is working well. The Com mittee of the Protestant Society for the Protection of Re ' '.igious Liberty, have announced their intention to give two Prizes of 100 guineas and 2.5 guineas, for the best Essays on the Union of Church and State, proving it anti-scrip tural and inimical both to religion and national prosperity, as well as a violation of freedom. Truth will in the end prevail, and that will not be on the side of Established Churches. We have the proofs of their injuriousness in Spain, France, Italy, and Ireland ; the proofs of the advan tage of the Voluntary System are to be found in the first propagation of Christianity, the present sending of Mis sionaries over the world, the extent of religious instruc tion in the United States, and the improvements in religious feeling, habits, and opinions in our own country with:n the last 50 years, which originated out of the Establ'shment, and were carried on in spite of it, till it found that the light of those improvements could not be extinguished, and then it followed in the same path. If Established Churches had been relied on, it is not too much to assert that the light of genuine Christianity would before now have been extin guished ; first, by the Established Papal Church, and next by the Established Protestant Churches ; and we owe its preservation to the Reformation in the first instance, and to Dissent in the second. Our Paper of to-d4y contains the lettUtb of Mr. lIINToN, anather imiof of the dgitatioh in the Church and State question Which has Lich caused by the appeal tb the public. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD has printed two letters ed c'ressed to Mr. O'CONNELL, in answer to his letter to the " Protestants of the Established Church of Ireland," on the tic** Tithe plan. It is as a Protestant who desires to see the Church independent, and sustained by reVenues de rived only from its Members, that Mr. CnAwFonn en ters into a searching examination of Mr. O'CoNNELL's latter, and condemns the Tithe plan, because it would place :le Protestant Church of Ireland more under its enemies, by making it dependent on a revenue derived from the general taxation of the State. He condemns it, too, because it is like the present system, a violation of rellgious freedom ; and he tells all Catholics and Dissenters, and tells Mr. O'Cox- NELL, that it is contrary to that voluntary principle which he and they uphold. We cannot .avoid conceding to Mr. CRAWFORD the praise of being a conscientious, consistent man ; but the length of his two letters prevents us from in serting them. Ile warned the people at an early period against all the schemes which were proposed for the com mutation of tithes in Leland, and we quite agree with him that the Irish ought not to be contented till the system is totally abolished. Captain LIHOU, of the Royal Navy, has published a small Pamphlet which well deserves the attention of her MAJESTY'S Government. It is entitled " Suggestions for the Establishment of a Royal Naval Nursery for Sailors," and sketches the outline of a plan for providing, at a corn parati% ely trifling expense, a constant supply of well-trained seamen for the navy. Our national dockyards arc truly magnificent establishments. We spare no expense in buil ding ships, in manufacturing anchors, cables, blocks, Sz e , in furnishing, in short, all the males-id of naval warfare ; yet, strange to say, we have hitherto been utterly regard less of providing the main requisite for giving effect to this costly apparatus—that element of living and actuating power, without which all the rest is nothing but so much useless lumber. The consequence of this unaccountable neglect is, that we are obliged to fall back upon our mer chant navy for sailors to man our fleets, and as in this ser vice, which is conducted on the most economical principles, the supply never exceeds tho demand, the commerce of the country is crippled, without affording resources at all ade quate to the necessities of the State. In cases of sudden emergency the evil is peculiarly felt. When a war breaks out, or threatens, merchant ships require an increased number of men for the purposes of defence ; wages rise high ; desertions from the Navy take place ; and that service, at no time very attractive in the eyes of seafaring men, is regarded with greater aversion than direr. It then becomes impossible to procure volunteers, and we have recourse to the unconstitutional and barbarous prac tice of impressment, entrusting the defence of our liberties, and all that is dear to us, to men torn by force from their peaceful employments, and held by force in a state of galling and degrading captivity. To avoid the necessity of impressment, and at the same time to furnish a constant supply of effective seamen for the Navy, Captain Litton proposes the following simple, and we think, excellent plan : " As all the sailors of the navy should, in peace, be either able seamen, mechanics, or promising boys, the former carefully kept up as a nucleus for the extension of our naval force at any time, the latter being trained and growing up to keep the nucleus perfect, I propose that ships, se lected from the laid-up vessels of war, be stationed at convenient seaports in the United Kingdom, for the reception of such boys and seamen as may volunteer and be found fit for her Majesty's Naval Service; the Seamen to be immediately forwarded, by Tenders, to the Ships requiring them; the Boys, after about a year's training, to be draughted into sea going ships, especially those proceeding to foreign stations, where they will soon become good seamen, and in the meantime be found more serviceable than landscen, or the eommon run of ordinary seamen, from their having in the first place been careililly chosen, and then instructed, on board the training ships, in the rudiments of educa tion, the use of the compass, rowing in boats, swimming, heaving the lead, and the other duties of seamen ; exercising great guns, and small arms, and other duties of gunners. The ships selected for this service might be stationed at the ports of London, Chatham, Portsmouth, Ply. mouth, Pembroke, Dublin, Cork, Bristol, Liverpool, Leith, &c., where they would supersede the necessity of any rendezvous on shore. They should be jury-rigged, provided with light boats, line pounders, small arms, and all other requisites for instructing the boys; each vessel to be commanded by an officer of a considerate disposition and some standing." Captain Liiiou calculates that 400 boys may be re ceived on board each of these ships, and estimates the ex pense at 8,8001. For ship, including every charge. Five ves sels would thus annually supply the Navy with 2,000 boys, being about a twelfth part of the number of sailors voted by Parliament for the year 1838-39. If, how ever, this should he found a greater number than the wants of the service require, there is no doubt that boys so well trained as these would find at all times ready employment in the merchant service. Captain Luton does not claim the merit of originating this plan, which has been acted upon by a private chari table association, called the " Marine Society," with the most beneficial effects. We cannot, indeed, give a better idea of the benefit which may be expected from the pro posed national establishment than by stating what has been accomplished by that Society. I t was established in 1756, and from its one ship has since that time supplied Sixty Thousand volunteers to the Navy, and Fifteen Thousand to the Merchant Service! Here then is proof positive of the effectiveness of the training system, as it may be called, and we sincerely hope that no time will be lost by the Govern ment in adopting it on such a scale as may be adequate to the exigencies of our naval service. Can any time 'be more proper for commencing operations than the present moment, when we see our ships of war detained in port, and the public service obstructed, for want of seamen ? We have New York Papers this morning to the 22d ult. —one day later than the advices received yesterday. A ma terial change for the better had taken place in the commer &al aspect of New York. Business was improving ; stocks rising ; and general confidence increasing. The rate of in ternal exchanges had fallen within three days from six to three per cent. Bank Stock rose in the same space of time from 108 to 115, and the rate of exchanges on Eng land from 1051 to 106. The Paris Journals of Tuesday contain the report of a debate in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, on a Bill for granting certain sums demanded by the Government for carrying on Public Works. The Opposition succeeded in reducing several of the items ; but ono for erecting a statue to Napoleon was voted with acclamation. Who, after this, will prate about the cessation of miracles? Raise a statue to NAPOLEON for acts for which his ashes and his family are expatriated! But French Statesmen have a way of their own for reconciling such moral discrepancies. The trial of HUBERT and his accomplices was resumed on Tuesday, but the Report contains no new fact of any interest. The following are interesting extracts from the French Papers : Extract of a letter from Madrid, of the sth Inst., quoted by the Memo rial Bordclais :—" It seems that the Marquis de Miraflores, our Am bassador Extraordinary to the coronation of the Queen of England, has received important instructions with regard to the policy with which the Count d'Ofalia wishes to inspire the French Cabinet on the Spanish question. 51. de Miraflores was the principal agent and subscriber on the part of Spain of the quadruple treaty in 1834, and 51 d'Ofalia thinks him the proper person to bring about the modifications of this . treaty rendered necessary for the pacification of the Peninsula. M. d'Ofalia, being desirous that Spain and Portugal m ay i n future rely on the firm and unanimous support of all the great p owers, wishes to bring about a diplomatic conference between the French and English Cabinets at Paris, and taking advantage of the present distress of Don Carlos, to arrange the affairs of Spain and Portug a l . R e wishes for Por tugal—lst. The re-establishment of Don Miguel as I n f ante of Portugal; ed. The recognition of the loan of Don sli guel, and of the The renewal of relations between Portugal and Rome, dipl omat i c as well d as eb s t p s contracted during during his reign ; 4th, A gener a l political amnesty. For Spain he wishes -I st, The re-establishme nt of Don C ar l os I nfante of Spain, en condition that he shall go abroad, with the enjoyment of all his property, and a pension suitable to his rank; 2 d, The return of the sons of Don Carlos into Spain, with the enjoym ent of pensions as Infantes; 3d, A general political amnesty, and even a recognition of civil and military offices, to be arranged by a mixed junta, established recognition of the debts contracted h ad hoc ; 4th, A Don Carlos, after examination by a mixed committee; sth, A guarantee of fu ero , an d privileges fur Biscay and Navarre, whose territories would be immedi. ately evacuated by the troops; 6th, 'lhe general liquidation of the Spa. nish debt, private and foreign, and the renewal of relations with Rome for the reform of the clergy. On these conditions the Count d'Ofalia and the Court of Lisbon suppose they will be able immediately to obtain the recognition by all Europe of the two female Crowns of the P eninsula; undertaking, at the same time, to oppose the progress of democracy and i rreligion." Baron Charles Dupin has been appointed, by a Royal Ordinance, dated the 12th instant, Director of the Naval Constructions of the Royal Marine. A dreadful Are took place on Friday night in the island of Brotteaux, at Lyons. The flames, which first broke out in a wood-ya r d , were in. creased by a high wind, and the absence of all means of extinction for more than an hour, as well as by the combustible nature of the materials. All the houses in the island were soon on fire, and when the engines arrived it was impossible to stop the progress of the flames, everything was consumed, and nearly 200 persons rendered houscless; no one how ever, was killed. The loss is supposed to be very considerable. At the first alarm a number of military were on the spot, and the Care of Brotteaux encouraged the people by his example. The Mayor has taken every measure to assist the sufferers, and has opened a subscription in their behalf. The Customhouse at Calais made a seizure, a few days ago, of a case containing more than 4,500 yards of English contraband goods addressed as e,§7 , ts d I'usage, to Count I'ahlen, Russian Ambassador, at Paris. The Mayor of Calais has issued a notice, that no charge can be de. - r 44. 4 Zhe TUE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1538 inattdeii foi the Countersigning of passports, nor thr petinissioM td etrt: bark, tidiVi:red in the bureaux of the Mayorio to travellers going to England ; that the permit given them to embark their luggage is also given gratis; and that they ought to refuse any payment whatever for any of these permits. A Company formed at Paris for exploring the ruins cf Carthage has already met with great success. A large house has been discovered on the margin of the sea, near Bourj-Jedid. Paintings in fresco, similar to those at Pompeii ; adorn many of the rootns, and beautiful mosaics, representing inch, Womdn, and nymphs, tidies of various kinds, tigers, gazelles, &c. have been found. Fifteen cases with these precious relics have arrivedat Toulon, and will be brought to Paris. The Lcipsic Universal Gazette of the 11th states, under date " Fron tiers of Russia, April 25," that Bishop tronglewieh, who, during the I'olich revolution, directed the diocese of Wilna, at.d was subsequently raised to the episcopal dignity, had been arrested on an order from St. Petersburgh. This measure, of which the cause was unknown, ex cited general surprise, the more so, as the pretate had proved himself a devoted tal of Russia, by consenting to remove from their eccle siastical ftntions all the clergymen of the diocese who had taken part in the late revolution, and who had been since in coroporated with the Russian regiments of the Caucasus. A carman, named Monard, was in the evening of the sth inst. driving a load cf charcoal from Nimes to Uzes, when he was stopped by a man, who, with a pistol, demanded his money or his life. Monard at first pretended that he had no money, but was at length induced by the per. suasive argument of the pistol to take two five-franc pieces from his pocket, which he threw on the ground. While the robber was stooping to pick them up, Monard sprang on him, wrenched the weapon from his hand, beat him till he was sense:ess, and then with a rope tied him to the cart. Recollecting, however, that the money was still on the ground, he left his cart, a:.(1 went bark to fetch it, but the darkness prevented his finding it. On rejoining his cart, the prisoner too was flown. He had only been stunned, and on reviving had managed to make his escape. The next morning, however, Monardy, on his way back to Nimes for another load, had the consolation of finding Isis five-franc pieces where he had thrown them. Lord Brougham will leave Paris on Friday; he will go to Brussels before he returns to London, where he is expected for the debate on the Irish Poor-law Bill in the House of Lords.-Le Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS. -PA ate. SLAY 15. Five p Yr Cervs., 109 f. 108 f. 93e. 11 , 9 f. Four and a Flail per Cents. 104 f. 25c. Four per Cents., 103 E Three per Cents., 81f. sc. 10c. Sc. Bank Actions, 2,710 f. 2,705 f. 2,710 f. Rente de Naples, U 10& 75c. fioc. 50e. Roman Five per Cents., 101%. Spanish Actives, 22 22', %. Spanish Passives, 4% 5.A. Belgian Loan, 103 1 4. Belgian Bank, 1,440 f. Pot tuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 24%. Haytian Loan, 4S5f. 480 f. EXCPIANGe ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 42%c.; money, 25f. 42%c. Three months, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 25f. 30c, LATEST PRICES. Five per Cents. 109 f. sc. Three per Cents., 81f. 10c. Bank Actions, 2,710 f. Romans, 101%. Belgian Loan, 103iA. Belgian Bank, 1,410 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 24%. Spanish Actives, 22%. Spanish Passives. 5%. Haytian Loan, 480 f. Brussels and German Journals have reached us this morning. Letters from Trieste mention the recovery of M. VON RUDHART as no longer doubtful. The Frankfort Diet is engaged with the Grunenwald affair. Prussia has offered, in conjunction with any other Power, to occupy the disputed territory till the decision of the Diet be made known. BELGIAN l'UNDS—Baussins, MAY 15. Actual Deht, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lO2 Loan of Thirty Millions 93% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 98% Society of Commerce, 45.;per Cent 165 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 141% National Society . —Brussels Papers, May IS. ' AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIEPors, SLAY S. Five per Cents. Metalliques Emir per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1147% —llllgerneine Zeitung, May 13. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. George Waiting was indicted for embezzling and secreting four post letters, whilst employed as a letter carrier in the General Post Office. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, Mr. SHEPHERD, and Mr. ADOLPHEE ap. peared for the prosecution ; Mr. C. PHILLIPE for the defence. .. . From the evidence for the prosecution it appeared that the prisoner was employed as a twopenny postman at Kensington, and that he was en. gaged in sorting the letters, the 18th April last. Suspicion having been previously excited, he was searched, and four letters were found upon him. None of the letters were opened, nor was any money contained in them. Mr. C. PIIILLIPPS made an able speech on behalf of the prisoner. Verdict—Guilty. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY): TWELVE O'CLOCK. Up to the present hour we have no account of the arrival of either of the steamers trom New York, which is looked for with great anxiety in the City, and particularly by the American merchants. The following important letter has been received this morning from Bahia, 24th March, by her Majesty's ship Dublin : " Battles have been fought with the insurgents from the 13th to the 18th March, which have decided the fate of the rebels, and the capture of the city, a great part of which is in ruins. The chief instigators of the revolution are in prison, whe directly or Indirectly have assisted in the promotion of it. Order has been restored, and tranquillity now prevails, and business going on as heretofore. It Is generally thought that these disturbances in the end will prove very beneficial, as it has removed all dangerous and suspected persons, by whicn means the legal Government will become stronger, and more respected than ever ; conscquentiy, property more secure. Exchange, 3:--looking up. A great number have been killed and wounded on both sides." FUNDS. Consols closed rather heavy yesterday, in anticipation of the Ministers Budget, which is to be produced to-morrow night in the House of Coin. 1 110113. Consols opened this morning at the closing prices 04 to ~ for Money and the Account. Exchequer Bills, 68 70 prem. ; India Bonds, 77 80; Bank Stock, 204 205 ; India Stock, 2701 271 i. In the Forcign Market Spanish Active, 21 % %, with Coupons; For. tugnese, 361 ; Three per Cents. 241 25 ; Dutch Two and a half per Cents. 54i i'.. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Ree 93q, 3 Ditto Bonds ...... . 77 pm. 3 Per Cent. Con s 04% 4 South Sea Stock itto per Ben tCe ..... ...... lOl% 1 % Nov Ditto — New 3% per Cent..... ........ 102 M 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751._ New 5 per C ent ... Bank LongAnnultlestocxpire Ditto .500 68 67 69 pm. jan. 5, 1860 Oct. 10, 1859 .. Ditto Commercial Jan, 5, M 0...-. ........ ..... Ditto Advertised ...... —— P. Jan. 5, 1880 ........ .......... Bank stock for Acc0unt........ April 5, 18811 — Incts Stock for Acc0unt......... .--- Jan. 5, 1870... ......... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds — Dittb Account — Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds ... Ditto Account 79% Ditto Account 36N4 7 Buenos Ayres Bonds — D i tt o , 3 per cent.... ........ ... -1X Ditto Account ..,....... ..... , — Ditto Account "C'S % 5 % Chilliau Bonds.-- ..... ...... Prussian BcrOs DiUo Account — Rusn Bends, 1822 .... Cilurnb .. l e.. 2 zn 30nd5................ Ditto Account .......... Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic. ........... —....— C durabian Bonds, 1824 — Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account - Ditto Account — Danish Bonds ......._ ......... .. Ditto Bonds, 1834 21X %A; Dltto Accouat — Ditto Account 22 1% 2 Greek Bonds — French, 5 par cent.......... —I. —, Ditto Bonds, 1825 —..---- 4 per cent. --f. —c Ditto Account .... .......... — —— 3 per cent. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Exchange f. , Ditto Account ..... ..—....... Dutch, 2% per cent 54 5 ,(,14 Ditto, 6 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto Account ... 2B%N Ditto, a per cant. • 100%84 I Neapolitan .. Ditto Account — J ....... ..... ---- PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK - - Per Share 4 Paid. Bristol and Exeter Railway Company lO Edinburgh and Glasgow 4 : , a Western Railway Company 65 Brighton Railway Company' 8 London and Blackwall Railway London and Southampton (New) Railway lO London and Croydon Railway Company 2O Ditto New Scrip Wrichostor and Birmingham Railway 7 8 North Midland Railway Company 35 40 Asphalte, Claridge's Patant . 2 1334 13 Do. Liverp00l Do. swiss Do. United States 2 214 Bitumen, Bastenne and Gaujac National Provincial Bank of England PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 15. 3 per Cent. Consols 02% , Grand Canal Deb& 6 per cent. 0274 334 per Cent. Stock loo iq Ditto, 4 per cent. ... ..... ..... g•2li Ditto Reduced — Ilibet nian Bank 2 4th Ditto New, 1830 ..... ........ 1 , OA City of Dublin Steam Company ill % 1%; pot Cent. Debentures Bank Stock Royal Canal Stock — Ballast Office Debentures, 4 per Grand Canal Stock 29% cent — HALF-PAST ONE. 94 5 OW4 1 4 ao% Consols, have continued during the morning at 941, for Account; Money, 94; Exchequer Bills, 69; India Bonds, 77; Bank Stock, 2041; India Stock, 2701. In the Foreign Market the chief speculations were in Spanish and Portuguese Stocks ; Spanish Active 211 with Coupons ; Portuguese n7i ; Brazilian, 791; Mexican, 281 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54i. A meeting has taken place this morning of the Irish Provincial Bank, which is of a satisfactory nature :—Profits of the year ceding 31st March, 47,3741.; a Dividend declared at the rate of 8 per Cent., to be paid upon the paid-up Capital the same as last year. Rest, 31st March, 1837, 88, 6984 ; Ditto, 3d March, 1837, 92,872/. The Share Market is very heavy, and all the Shares arc lower— Asphaltc. Liverpool, premium, Claridge's, 11 premium ; United States, premium ; Bastenne, pre m i um ; P o l onceau no thi ng d o i ng. a THREE 0' CLOCK. Consols for Account, 94k. THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 204%, India Stock 0 70% 3:per Ccnt. Red 93% Ditto Bonds 77 3 per Cent. Cons 94 Ditto Old Annuities — ;.”.:, per Cent 101 1 7 ,i, Ditto New Annuities .... ..... ... 3 per Cent. Red 101 1 ,4 Ex. Bills, 1,000/... ..2.,id 69 pin New 3y,,,:, per Cent 102 % Ditto 50' 1 Cl prr Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 09 pm Jan. ISO I Oct. 1850 Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto .... 3 1 14 Prussian, 5 per cent Rus Mae Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto, Metallic — Spanish, 5 per cent 2? Ditto, Consolidated — French, 5 per cent. —l. —c. Exchange French, :Iper cent —l —c. Dutch, 2% per cent. Ditto, 5 per cent. lOO% SHARES.-(THIS DAY). Railway lway dway Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent ___ Braz►lian Bonds Buenos Ayr. 5, 6 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent Colombiam, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 — Danish, 3 per cent _ Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cent., 1823 _ Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent (CLOSING PRICE OF Birmingham and Gloucester London and Birmingham Rail London and Southampton Rai National Loan Fund AUGSBUROH, MAY 9 . —Accounts from Trieste of the Ist and 2d, give us hopes of M. Von Rudhart's recovery. The Marquis of Anglesey has issued cards for grand dinners on the 6th and 7th ofJune, at Uxbridge House. The Countess of Mount Norris has issued cards for a 'soiree damante about the middle of the next month. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended' May 11, 1 :3S,'made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Englan4 and Wales, tit r imperial Quarter. Wheat 6os. led. Oats I Carley 2)s led. Rye .. ... 31s 3d. I Pease f'l4s 4d. MYERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TILE SIX WEEKS FRECF.DING. Wheat 59s 4d. Oats yv 21s. 9cl. I Beans 31.5.10.1 Barley 29s. lid I Rye 3ls. Sit I Pease 3.35. 4i DITTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat Oats 1 Barley lßs. 4d. nye „ . _ . Out of the one hundred and fifty towns from which the averages are taken, the highest weekly average of Wheat was at Guildford, where it was 70s. 2d., the lowest at Haverfordwest, where it was 525. OJ, • THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). HUNGERFOItD MARKET. Fish to-day plentiful and cheap. Cod, Is. to 55.; Soles 9d. and Is. to 3s. per pair; Turbot, 3s. and 4s. to 15s. ; Lobsters Is. 6d. to 35.; Butcher Meat continues at previous quotations, and trade is lively, owing to cold weather. Vegetables have received a check by frost, but arc not dearer yet. Hay and Clover continue firm. CITY FISH MARKET. To-day there was a good supply of all kinds again, and prices were reasonable. Cod, Is. to 55.; Soles, 6d. to 3s. per pair; Turbot, 2s. and 3s. for small, to 15s. for large; Lobsters, Is. to 3s. each ; Mackarel, 4d. to Sd. each ; Salmon, is. to Is. 6c1., and crimped, 3s. 6d. to 4s. per lb. HAY MARKETS. The supplies this morning were not very large, and the demand con tinues steady. Prices much as before. Meadow Hay, 85s. to 100 s Clover Hay, 85s. to 115 s. Straw, 365. to 4‘2s . per load. SPIRIT MARKET. Nothing doing to-day in any kind under this denomination, and prices as before. TALLOW MARKET. P.Y.C. to-day continued to be quoted at 475. to 475. 6d. on the spot, and 455. for delivery. The market very flat. OIL MARKET. This market is very flat for all descriptions, and prices of some kinds merely nominal. Southern is quoted at 251. to 291. Sperm Oil—none in the market. The season over for Seal. Olive Oil is 545. per cwt Linseed, 265. 6d. ; Pale Rape, 365. 6d. to 37e. COLONIAL MARKETS. Although there was a ho , iday to-day in most of the markets, owing to the celebration of the Queen's birth-day, there was none here. We do not think that there is quite such a disposition to purchase as there was; the importers are firm, however, in their demands. No doubt when the wind changes the arrivals of produce will be great, and the market, except some unforeseen circumstance occurs, heavy. To-day the sale., were small, consisting only of 2,000 boxes yellow Havannah Sugar, par damaged, and 500 bags Havannah Coffee. Wo quote the market for Raw Sugar, including the above and 8.P., as firm at yesterday's prices ; still B.P. does not sell briskly. The Coffee may be quoted at prices ranging between 68s. and 905., according to quality, which are former prices. Tea is flat, in the face of arrivals ; and there is nothing new in Spices, Rice, Cocoa, Cotton, or Indigo. Saltpetre is looking up in price. The Imports of East India produce and those of West are scanty. The Exports are steady, and the deliveries for consumption of the pri mary articles considerable. The only public sale of Colonial produce advertised for to.morrow is 2,000 bags White Bengal Sugar. So small a quantity of business for a Friday is almost without a precedent. It arises from most of the stocks of leading articles having passed into second hands. :ET.—May 10. eer Ton. s. d Walls End Hartlepool 22 C Dixon's Butterknowl l9 t , Walls End Adelaide 2l :1 Walls End Barrington Tees ?.O I ... Walls End Deanery l9 Walls End We►t Tees ll Walls End Gordon '2o Walls End Seymour Tees Walls End South Durham 26 ! Walls End Tees Walls!End West Hetton Walls End Hartley 22 last market-day, 115. COAL MAR: Per Ton. a. d. Adair's Dean's Primrose - 18 0 Felling Main lB 0 Holywell Picton l7 0 Pentop Windsor lB 6 Russell's High Main Wylain l9 9 Walls End Bell and Brown Walls End;Bewicke and Co 2l 3 Walls End Grace Walls End Killingworth Walls End Braddyll's lletton 2.2 6 Ships arrived since LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 113. A large business has been done to-day, the sales amount to 5,000 bags, which have been chiefly taken by the trade, though some lots of American have been taken by Speculators, and a few for Export. In prices we do not find the least change. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. Abingd0n.....—......... Andover Birmingham- Bridport ----«... Cirencester ......-,.... Faringdon......---- Guildford ..............., Henley Hereford .....-,...... Highworth Maidenhead Monmouth.... w Reading Salisbury Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury Uxbridge Wantage--. Warminster Windsor. Worcester — S. to S. 44 50 47 52 36 48 38 50 44 51 35 46 38 54 42 58 30 49 42 60 32 58 46 41 34 57 44 54 45 s') 36 44 s. to s. 30 34 31 30 40 32 36 27 32 26 30 28 35 26 :V 26 32 32 42 24 36 32 34 25 35 30 34 33 40 28 36 B. to B. 2'2 30 16 22 26 30 20 25 26 30 20 30 23 26 22 29 28 34 20 28 22 29 20 27 20 28 28 32 20 24 2'2 32 17 28 20 25 22 26 21 22 30 32 5. to S. 40 48 32 52 30 40 28 32 24 34 27 34 43 - 32 40 - 46 - 46 - 56 34 44 31 40 33 42 41 46 - 42 53 53 33 36 33 42 36 40 - 35 Pease. s. t• s - 4r - - 34 38 - 42 33 46 46 48 LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, MIA - lb. The weather has been very cold and unseasonable since our last re port, and the wheat crops in this district have a less favourable appear ance. The fresh arrivals from Ireland or coastwise are light. The wheat trade, notwithstanding a good attendance of dealers, was dull this morning, and the small retail business effected was principally it, red Irish, at our last quotations. There was also a want of' animation in the demand for Oats ; still Friday's prices remain unaltered. Oat meal, on the contrary, was in good request, as also wero fine samples of Flour, and both articles fully realised our last currency. WHICAT. English, White, per 70lb. Red -- Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 5 4 3 9 —.--- Red 7 6 8 6 Foreign 7 6 9 6 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 45th. 3 3 4 Irish Foreign p (I 0 0(/ EARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 32 0 36 0 Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. Feeding 3 6 4 0 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 44 0 Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 42 0 --- Foreign FLona, English, per '290115. -- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 25 6 23 0 INDIAN CORM, per 4401 b. Rye, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter oe GRAIN for the Week ending May 14 Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. Oat heal Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. IForeign, Brig.' Irish, tire. Ss 1 4,685 7,587 253 9,219 11,248 d. tc d 6 8 7 0 71 0 8 0 0 CHELTENHAM MARKETS. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d Per lb. Wheat garley 3 0 4 8 Mutton Oats 3 0 4 3 Veal Beans Pease .., Hay 5l. Os. to 51. 10s. Oil. per ton. HULL MARKET.—May 15. Wheat, Old 525. 58s. 60, ......New 'ills. 58; 60s. -- Foreign —s.—s. —s. ln bond... —s. —s. —s. Oats, Poland —a. fOs. 22s Old —B. 24s 76i. -- Small or Feed—. —a. 17e. 18; -- Foreign —s...-13. s Barley, Norf. & Suf. 22s. 265. 31s. Line. & \Vold —s. 28s. 31a. -- Foreign Beans 2 , is. 30s. 345. Foreign Pease, White.. 'AL 30s. 345. Grey 265.25, 301. Tares 235. 283;i323. Foreign 28s. 50s. 22r. Rapeseed. In bond none Free, per last 221. Os. 24g. Sir Robert Peel purchased last Saturday, at th, sale of Lord Northwick's pictures by modern artists, the portrait of the celebrated Whig, Sir Robert Walpole, first Earl of Orford, painted 1,3 Vanderbank, for 31 guineas. Lord and Lady Poltimore have issued cards for : series of grand dinners on the 20th and 26th of May, and on tl e l6th of June to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. In evening there will be a grand assembly of the fashionable world. The "Animal's Friend Society" last week caused six convictions by Messrs. Jeremy and Trail!, viz., George Dollor, having cruelly goaded and beaten three draught bulls, which had larg iron rings in their noses, and having been covered with wounds ; William Richford, for having bitten a dog's foot, and carried the pore animal about by the foot with his teeth ; Edward Nash, for cruelty to a bullock; George Pott and John Croft, for cruelty to truck dogs; and Mr. lienggeridge's driver, for cruelty to a horse. They none of them paid, and were committed to prison in default. THE PRECIOUS METALS.—The exportation of gold and silver coin from the port of London to foreign ports durini the week ending the 15th instant, is as under: —Gold coin to Phila delphia, 90 oz. ; ditto to New York, 589 oz. ; silver coin to Sow: Australia, 3,220 oz. ; ditto to Rotterdam, 14,000 oz. Mr. Hay Cameron, has been appointed, by tilt President of the Council of India, Fourth Ordinary Member of the Council of India, in the room of Mr. Babington Macauley, now o. his passage home. No division has ever been so accurately calculates' as that of Tuesday night. At most of the Club Houses, the probab4 numbers were stated at 317 Whigs and Radicals, to 299 Conservative,, which turns out to be the exaet number on the one side, and withi one of the other. CONFESSION.—A Portuguese cobbler used to bee' Lis wife most unmercifull_ a few days before his attendance on his Con fessor. A neighbour remonstrated on his cruelty, and inquired ink cause of it. " Why," said the cobbler, "lam a great sinner, but hay, unfortunately a very short memory, so that I should forget many of sins did I not beat my wife regularly before Confession, and then I al: sure that she will put me in mind of every one of them." The Palace in which the Stuarts reside in Row, still bears the name of the Palazzo del Pretendente. Northcote, the eccentric painter, used to say the. " The devil tempted every body but the idle, and the idle tempt ed the devil." He sometimes added, that the inside of the skull was the devil's workshop." Holy Thursday this year falls on the 24th of May. the Queen's Birth day. That is the reason, we believe, why the cele. bration doe,: not take place on that day. As this is a moveable feast. however, and rarely happens so late, it may be many years before suet a coincidence occurs. We hear it repeated, from various quarters, that Sit Robert Peel never showed less animation in his speeches than or Tuesday night, and at the dinner given to him at Merchant Tailors Hall. This can surprise no one. Independent of the bad cause it which he was engaged—the disreputable trick to take advantage of Loi John Russers confidence in the good faith of the party—he is evidentl: moved on at present by the tail, and like all animals, and chiefly th 3 animal for which Essex is celebrated, he moves with an awkward when the pressure from without operates upan that appendage. The Bishop Exeter enjoys the c - edit of having put the tail in motion, aid further, report says, that if the movement is not quickened, the mon impatient of the party intend to take to the Derby Dilly. How TO COMMIT MURDER QUIETLY.—Take a young lady and tell her she has a pretty foot. She will then wee small thin shoes, go out in the wet, catch a cold, the cold will become fever, and she will die in a month.—American Paper. . • Her Grace the D uc h ess of Sutherland, Mistress (Y . the Robes to her Majesty, was safely delivered of a daughter yesterday, at three o'clock, at Stafford House, in the Green Park. The Duk, and Duchess have now six children, two sons and four daughters ; th , two eldest, the Marquis of Stafford and Lady Evelyn Gower, are in th present exhibition of the Royal Academy, painted by Edwin Landsee. - Her Majesty and the Duchess of Kent sent twice Yest ;day to inquire after her Grace, Til E A TRES. DRURY-LANE. Being prevented, by unforeseen circumstances, from writing a length :ietl notice of Mr. C. Kean's first appearance last night as Othello, we ropy the following . from a Morning Contemporary (the Post) as coming ,carer to our own ideas of the performance than any other we have seen l'he theatre was at en early hour crowded by as numerous an audience as winie,sed his first appearance here; and on his appearance he was ,reeted with the most enthusiastic and often repeated rhee rM2- " Mr. Charles Kean appeared at this thew re last night for the first in the character of Othello. Under any circumstances the character i 5 an arduous one, but it was rendered more so on the present occasion from its having been conside re d th e c h ef d ' muvre o f his lament ed father. Mr. C. Kean, however, sustained the burthen most manfully' and achieved so complete a victory over all difficulties (amongst which reminiscences of bye. gone days were not the least embarrass ing) as to warrant us in pronouncing that Othello is entitled to a fore most rank in his range of characters. On his first appearance he evinced by his manner a consciousness of the difficulties he was abou t to encounter," which created some appre h ens i on t h a t phYsieallY 11 might be unequal to the t as k , b u t as th e p l ay progresse d, and le vel speaking gave pl ace t o b ursts o f f ee li ng, the gen i us o f the act or shone Ibrth in its bright es t co l ours, an d e li c i te d f ro m a crow ded audience such manifestations o f a ppl ause as m i g ht f a irly lead to an anticipation of the revival of th e mos t p a l m y d a ys of the dra ma ' Where everything was so deserving of p ra i se t o p a rticularize m ay seem invidious, but w e s h ou ld imperfectly fulfil our duty were we not to select a fear passa g e s i n th e d e li very o f w hi c h Mr. K ean achieved his greatest triumph s . I n th e fi rs t scene o f t h e third act, a fter lago has first awakened his j ea l ous y, th e so lil oquy, ex pressive of his resolve what course to pursue in th e even t o f D es d emon a proving false to him, was given with an alternate power and pathos, for a parallel to which we must revert to the days of his father. The sentence cola mencing— If I do prove her haggard, Tho' that her jesses were my dear heartstrings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune," was given with an effect really a pp a lli ng ; an d th e transition from the frenzied manner which accompanied the utterance of the above. hues to the thrilling tone of deop despo n d enc y w ith w hi c h he pronoun ce 6 the lines: " Haply, for I am black, &c." drew tears in abundance from the eyes of the larger portion of b lc fair auditory. The concluding scene demands a word, were it only for the death, which was true to nature, inasmuch as in such a predicament 5 man does not usually study attitudes ; and, albeit tho falling of Mr' Kean may have been premeditated, it was hardly planned with a due regard to life and limb. For the sa f e ty o f th e l as t we certainly f elt no small degree of apprehension. Miss Alison, a young la d / of considerable promise, appeared for the first time on these boards in the character of Desdemona. It offers but little scope for the exhibition of talent ; but as far as the juvenil e appearao ca and innocent bearing, which constitute the beauty of this creation f Shakspeare's fancy, is concerned we think Nib; young lady proved 35 efficient representative. Mr. and Mrs. Tertian sustained the character!' of lago and Emilia. Of the former want of space compels us to reserse our notice; but of the lady we may safely affirm that the part was nel er better performed. The play was announced for repetition on Fr ids7 amidst vehement applause." HAYMARKET. A one-act farce called Suzanne, was produced at this theatre. ° to Monday, and is repeated every evening. The c hief purpose of it I ' display the mimetic powers of Mdlle. Celeste, who personates a French girl, deprived of speech by being left, w h en a c hild, i n th e snow, du rin g the retreat across the Pyrenees. Found and adopted by an Eng% officer, affection h as, unconsciously to both, s p rung up ; and St,r,,°it emotion at his life being endangered by a deul o n h er acc ount, so or " . her frame as to occasion violent exclam a ti o n, w hi c h i s followed by .he complete recovery of the faculty of speech. The story thus give! P t r he priety to the French accent of the sweet tones of Mdlle. Celeste i n concluding portion of the faros, when they su c ceed t o the exPr e ' „,• gesticulation which is her pecular talent. The panto m imic excellence"ve Mdlle. Celeste has not, it seems to us, been been generally a ppree , h 3 'ct , as it deserves. It has no affinity with common stage pantomime , is is at once thoroughly conventi ona l an d u t ter l y unintelligible. llbe:set. the language of nature, as mat ure d b y th e b orn mute. Sh e is t"-,..,30,tt ress of the deaf and dumb. N o t a c hild cou ld b e foun d i n the 3. la asylums and institutions for th a t numerous class, to whom she A li ffr:cl not be perfectly intelligible. H er pi c t ures speak to the eye f a il rather than to the heart. But for the eye and fancy they are osn of pictorial beauty, and imply a much higher species of M erl ' so 0 her cachoucha dancing, whi c h h as b een f oun d , an d d es erved tractive. THE UNITED STATES. THE NEW " GENERAL BANK LAW." ned A Bill had been introduced to the York Legislature. ca.-- " General Bank Law," to authorise the creation of new banks , and to"; Assembly had resolved that they should always retain specie tut the journals of 129 per cent. upon their issues. O n thi s project, one 0. the journals contains the following remarks whi c h ably illustra te or working of this intended new system, th oug h, perhaps, on o n e . two points, they border slightly on the extrem e; nevertheless, the pi are useful. " By this law any number of persons, foreigners or natives, resident: or otherwise, can establish a bank with a capital not under 10,0; dollars ; but to any extent beyond, by putting in trust, under the S t3 ‘. ,, Comptroller, United States or State Stocks to half the aniount---0` other half in good mortgages on real estate. The A 530630011 is th en authorised to issue an equal amount in paper money, retaining ab"Ystha: a basis 12i per cent, in specie of its issues. The pa , h pe a r lf i g g o ti o i d g l ct o i r l tb f Y ari: Comptroller, and the original capital—half stocks, —remains always in trust, as a fund to redeem the issues in case ° vulsion, accidents, or mismanagement. rota " These are the leading points of the new system, as it differs f the old. " The present incorporated banks loan out all their capital and credit in exchange for mercantile paper, retaining a per centage for a sPeCie basis. In the new system the capital can never be diverted from its In n. ' pose, and nothing but the credits of the bank can be issued at all, deduct ins from the amount of these credits the sum retained in the shape specie. To put this in plainer language, we give the following analysiB of a bank on each system : OLD DANK SYSTEM. NEW BANK SYSTEM. Dollars. Dollars. Capital lOO,OOO fixed 100,000 Loans, authorised 250,000 ditto 87,500 Specie, any or none 100,000 ditto 12,500 This table represents the capacities of both systems. The new Bank system is certainly the strongest; because, if the original capital is worth its face, it never can be loaned out on commercial paper as the old man may be. This might curtail the profits of the new sY s , j . tern, but the deficiency is made up by the capital in stock s and houses, still yielding them a revenue, while, in addition, the Hanle ea l. e. )la tal becomes the basis of a currency, always redeemable in sp ecie. It also gives to the men of real property all the power to create _ currency, Ban k "We conceive this law to be in fact worth all that Congress or , conventions can do in years. It is the establishment of a s pecie-Pa n Y ti te : banking system, inimitable in extent, amount, force, power, an , hc ence. It will make Wall-street more than ever the centre ofre, money transactions of the United States, and ultimately the cent r the Exchanges of the commercial world. The simultaneous estab 15 " ment of steamers between this port and Europe only confirm the s way of empire in this glorious Island. " Such is our situation —such is the opening--such is the Pr - s - „ Have we the elements to put this system into motion ? Cats built up at all? " We conceive it c a n, an d t h at very shortly. D ur ing the last l te c i f : months the various states throughout the country have authorised lsdsois., of stocks, in the aggre ga t e, pro b a b ly, to the amount o f 30,000, 000 v : o ns in addition to the existence of nearly 100,000,000 dots., by pre 0 , , acts f incori.oration. Here are the materials that will constitute w",,, half the capitals of the new system. The owners of these receive the yearly interest, at the same time that they m a y ad Lf the ptofirs, under good managers, of banking on the saMe. , real The other half of these capitals are to be in mortgage' di„g 50 AcCOreN, estate. Of this there is abundance, even in New York. york the last annual returns, the real estate of the State of th i r ds amounted to 600,000,000 dollars and more. Supposing that two-banx, is already mortgaged, the remainder is quite sufficient for all t he ing purposes to set an empire on her legs. for 1 " " Here are the elements of the fixed capital—what have We specie basis of 121 on the issues? 00Win 6 64 An abundance. From every part of the world, the specie , ' of t he stoats, to into the United States. Under the power of the cotton crop s o dot south, set in action by Mr. Biddle, we have seen probably 6,ooo,po o una tars coining into the coun t r y s i nce J anuary l ast, f rom the world nybe ot, During the next six months pr o b a bly 6,000 , 000 d o llars more will tracted here--making in thi s city an aggrega t e o f 12,000,000 Jol la specie, which authorises, under the new syste-n, issues to the isl° °" ii d to ~ 87,000,000 dol. with a fund t o an equua l amoun t, a s a trust fund guard against ultimate accident. our" We present the str ong f ea t ures o f t h e new system—r emindin ‘ t readers that its power is only li m it e d b y t h e capacity o f t he count" o 3l " In pursuance of this new state of things, we learn tha t ' e , s ing banks of very large capitals, on the new system, are a l rea dy orga , , ' y r ' , of in Wall-street—one in particular, .of at least 80,000 , 000 1101 : 3 , - 0 ° t capital. Isaac S. Bronson is said to be preparing one, the 1 331. 'h00. London probably another, and several Trust Companies think c f his ing their institutions into banks. Mr. Biddle can also organ,,:" agency in Wall-street to any extent he pleases under the new 10'4% LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS ni%- DEAL, MAY 16.—Wind E.N. F., moderate.— Arrived and Pr e- t ` a bar, for the River, the Ingleb oroug h , Ri c k etts, f rom C an t on ; and M s 4 l , — o rts- Bax, from Bombay. C ame d own th e Ri ver and proceeded the man, Hutchinson, for St. D om i ngo ; P arse ] , M'K e ll ar, for 00 h, : t Al3ll O . PORTSMOUTII, MAY 16.—Wind SE , fi ne. A r ' rived th e Richards, from St. Mi c h ae l' s ; and Toronto, Griswold, from 14eW : f - i ( a na. Sailed August, Warner, for Chri s ti ana ; Phoenix, Hi o rth. for Chr'sot. Arrived ff ort the Boyne, Richardson, from Bombay. jcsty's sh o ip p ßellerophon, for Malta ; her Majesty's ship Jupiter, Malta ; and her Majesty's ship Russel, for Lisbon. irrir eci FALMOUTU, MAY 15.—Wind E.S.E. t o E., s t ron g breezes. --- from the Columbine, Brown, from Aux C a y es ; an d A co rn, Mitchell, cam Tarragona. Arrived off port G eorge th e F our th , Drayner, fro nt tonLIVE ; nd West Indian, Turner, amai ca RPf OL, MAY 16. Wind from N., J light. a. —Arrived the r i pro' Haywood, from New Orleans : S aracen, D evereux , from geh"eri',, e rid* fliers, Murdoch, from Mobile ; Pion eer , —, f ro m New York ; "--sord- Domansky, from Dantzic ; Union, NVrenholt, from Darazi e ,„; Wism ar ; sterne, Sartorius, from Dantzic; Mercu r i us , W a rucke, from Wm ei ; Frederick Wilhelmine, —, from Memel ; Heinrich, Guss, from Memel; C. G. Von Essen, Schumaker, from Stralsand ; CharlottE,- -, from . ohn sand ; and Cecilie, Bay, from Copenhagen. Arrived off port thu Knox, —, from Bombay; Felicity, —, f ro n Jamaica ; BrBzi!Tthe from Trieste ; and John Anderson, —, from Charlsto n. Sa" ,i C Nymph, Brown, for Newfoundland. • le ft °l ' WEYMOUTH, MAY 16.—Arrived off port the London, Wimb st, Calcutta ; Dryad, Asken, from Lima ;an 1 Chieftain, Moore , from Vincent's. ini the TORBAY, MAY 1 5.—Arrived off port the Griffin, fro South Seas. START, MAT 15. —Off port the Louisa, from Rio Janeiro. DuaLIN, MAY Is.—Arri ve d th e Atlas, Pierce, from Lou don. d n, WATEaFoan, MAY 15.—Arrived the Kilkenny, steame r, CORK, Me( 14.—Arrived the Mary Jones, Fakley, fro 1 0nte ° Video; Calista, Blacquier, from Honduras. NEWRY, MAT 4.—Arrived the Eleonora, Bicker, fro m Memel. LIMERICK, MAY 14.—Arrived the Providence, Lee , from Loncodni: Friends, Th omas, f rom d o. ; F r i en d s , 'romkins, train do. ; Am ez3 Gose, fann St. Übe's. Got- LEITH, MAY 14.—Arrived the Johanna Wilhe!ro. from tenburg. Fr • sHERROW, MAY IS.—Arrived the Malvina, Hanson, from Wism ar. Ho. M AY 16.—Arrived the William the Fourth (stea mer), from Hamburg. from SALCONIBE, MAY 16.--Arrived off pert the Casket , Brown, St. Kitts. BRIDLINGTON, MAY 16.--Arrived the Rosalie Arnand, from 5.0". nigsberg. 49th The Snowden, fr.im Africa to Liverpool, was fallen in with March, lat. 2 S. lon. 19 W., in distress, having lost her rudder three dais previous, and supplied with a temporary one b y the Wellingtous arrived off Plymouth.